Liverpool have three senior gamers reaching the top of their contracts in the summertime and curiosity from Spain has tempted one in every of them away from Anfield.
Barcelona sporting director Deco thought-about reigniting the membership’s long-term admiration of Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold .
In line with journalist Sique Rodriguez, Deco and Barcelona held a gathering with Alexander-Arnold’s agent having beforehand thought-about a transfer for him when Xavi Hernandez was their supervisor.
Barcelona met with Trent Alexander-Arnold agent over deal away from Liverpool
Trent Alexander-Arnold is about for Actual Madrid (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Alexander-Arnold, who’s ranked at no. 1 in FourFourTwo ’s record of the most effective right-backs on this planet proper now , is as an alternative set to hitch Actual Madrid .
Rodriguez studies that Barcelona ended their curiosity within the Liverpool right-back due to their must adjust to monetary restraints in Spain.
Trent Alexander-Arnold is out of contract in the summertime (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Rodriguez additionally claims that Barcelona opted to put their religion in Jules Kounde and recruit an understudy as an alternative of an improve, conveniently avoiding the necessity to compete with Actual Madrid for Alexander-Arnold.
The Liverpool-born England worldwide has been a one-club man up up to now in his profession.
On the age of 26, he has gained the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and even the Membership World Cup along with his boyhood membership, however has determined to maneuver on along with his contract at an finish.
Alexander-Arnold will hyperlink up with worldwide team-mate Jude Bellingham on the Bernabeu, the place he’ll additionally observe within the footsteps of two former Liverpool gamers who got here by the ranks at Anfield earlier than heading to the Spanish capital.
Steve McManaman was a hit at Liverpool and Actual Madrid (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Steve McManaman joined Actual Madrid from Liverpool in 1999 and went on to win La Liga twice and the Champions League twice with the Spanish giants.
5 years later, Michael Owen left Anfield to hitch Madrid. Although his time in Spain was shorter and fewer profitable by far than McManaman’s, Owen was effectively regarded at his new membership after initially struggling to seek out his toes.
Barcelona have faith in Jules Kounde (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Alexander-Arnold shouldn’t have any such points. His function as a long-term alternative for Madrid legend Dani Carvajal , 33 years of age and out for many of this season after struggling a nasty knee damage, couldn’t be clearer.
He has the pedigree to step into the function with ease and the extra Actual Madrid play on the entrance foot in opposition to groups that defend deep and wish unpicking, the higher Alexander-Arnold shall be.
With Kounde in place, Barcelona’s fleeting curiosity wouldn’t have given him the identical alternative and it’s probably that Alexander-Arnold would have opted for Madrid regardless.
Certainly, it’s attainable that Actual Madrid have been the one membership that would have tempted Alexander-Arnold away from Anfield.
